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Show ! RUSSIA TO MFhl OFFENSIVE EARLY I Extensive Preparations Being mwM Made Thousands of New H Troops in Readiness. H RUSHING AMMUNITION LW Hundreds of Japanese Officers 1 Drilling Russian Soldiers in ' mWU Use of Heavy Artillery. " H New York, July 6. Dr. B. R. Wardcut' of New Haven, Conn., who arriveiTl "H here today on the steamship UnitedNy' MM States from Copenhagen after spend H ing a year in Russia, said that thy i mm Russians were making extensive prep- H arations in arras and munitions for MM an early offensive against the Ger- H mans in Gallcla. The Vologda and JM Archnngel railroad with newly con- H structed lines reaching from Vologda " toward the battle lino, has been turn- " ed over in its entirety by, the govern- ment for the transportation of muni- tions of war. "H Ammunition Sent to Archangel. Jmt Since Archangel was opened to navi- 11 gatlon Dr. Ward asserted ammunition Mm laden ships from England and Can- B ada have been arriving almost daily. H Thousands of soldiers at Archangel MM are busy day and night transferring MM munitions to trains and all railroad H equipment that can be handled is be- "AM ing operated over the road, the south- H hound trains being loaded to capacity, jM "I left Petrograd about the middle H of June," said Dr. Ward. "Despite the m Russian reverses there was no indica- W ticn of discouragement. MMM New Russian i roops. m Thousands of new Russian troops M are in readiness to be rushed to the H front as soon as tho danger of an- H oher shortage of ammunition Is past. H They are simply waiting for amraunl- H tlon and equipment. Within ten miles lH of Petrograd over 600,000 troops are IH encamped, and I was reliably in- H formed that as many more are in jH readiness In dozens of other places. JH "While Russia is not receiving much jH help from Japan In the form of mu 'jBH nitions or men, I know from my own JmM personal knowledge that hundreds of ( "H trained Japanese officers are engaged J H In drilling tho Russian troops In the -; "H use of heavy artillery. At the hotel ' ;M In Petrograd where I lived there wero ;H secnteen Japanese artillery officers, . - TM the majority of whom had served in J JH the siege of Port Arthur. They made VMm no secret of their presence, or what mMM they were doing." J""H h --, ---""' '''L.yi7. - ' 2mwmwmwmwmwmwWWmw mk-mMMMMMMMMMM |